Critical Mass (2025)

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— Julia Christey

Being and Non-being

“With the generous help of family, friends and community 100 birds-nests were collected over 3 years. To me, they represent the clever ingenuity of another species. Nests carry deep emotional resonance, embodying safety, sanctuary, and the enduring idea of home and renewal. Yet as humans grow increasingly disconnected from the ecological systems that sustain them - and as nature strains under the weight of human interference - other species are losing their habitats, their survival threatened.

This installation is intended as an encounter with absence.

Living presence, now erased, is exhibited in the white cube of a gallery.

A poignant, ironic and sanitised way to engage with nature.

A deliberate up-ending of the ecological order.

A strategic collapse of the nature/culture divide.

An enquiry: What are the rights of nature and who will defend them?”